The guillotine was the preferred method of execution during France's "Reign of Terror" in the 1790s. But the origins of this ...

The Guillotine. Share full article. July 26, 1908. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from July 26, 1908, Section PART, Page 6 Buy Reprints.

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PARIS, July 5. -- The man known as Matthias Hadelt, who was convicted recently at the Drome Assizes at Valence of the murder of Father Ildefonse, the Procurator of the Trappist monastery at ...

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